Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .- Speaking
to the annual meeting of the High Level Segment of the United Nations
Economic and Social Council, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said that, "the
dignity of the person is what gives work and development their true
value."

Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .- Responding
the news that the Spanish government will hold peace negotiations with
the Basque separatist group ETA, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares of Toledo
said political negotiations with terrorism are useless and that, “the
only thing that works is for it to disappear.”

Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
In response to a court ruling allowing a transsexual to contract
marriage, lawmakers in the Philippine Congress have drafted a
Constitutional amendment that would prevent similar court rulings and
would ban homosexual “marriage” in the country.

Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
Bishop Luis Stockler of Quilmes said this week that tubal ligations and
vasectomies constitute, “a total mutilation of the human body that
among other things cuts off the gift of procreation which is born of
the act of love, open to life, of spouses.”

Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
The case of Terry Wallis, an Arkansas man who suddenly woke up from a
19-year long coma, has raised new questions about the death of Terri
Schiavo, who died last year after a court ordered her feeding tube to
be disconnected. Wallis fell into his coma in 1984 after a serious car
accident. At the time he was 19.

Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
Officials at the basilica that houses the relics of St. Francis Xavier
have decided to restrict tour guides because of numerous complaints by
devotees that they are disruptive.

Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
Pope Benedict XVI named the first Jesuit bishop in Australian history
this week. Fr. Greg O’Kelly, SJ, will be ordained to the episcopate in
September to serve as auxiliary to Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide.

Jul 7, 2006 - 12:00 am .- Following
the announcement from the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute that the
National Action Party’s (PAN) candidate, Felipe Calderón, had achieved
victory in Mexico’s presidential election, the Mexican bishops issued a
call to all sides to accept results of the election and to work towards
reconciliation between the different political parties.